Transmitting-gear.



Patented Apr. 8, |902. J. S. COPELAND.

TRANSMITTING GEAR. (Afplication med sept. 1s, 190x.)

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' J. .S. COPELAND.

.TnANsmTTme GEAR.

(Application' led Sept. k16, 1901,) A (No Model.) 2|-Sh0ats-Shevet 2.

W/TNESSES TTEE STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JAMES S. COPELAND, OE HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN BICYCLE COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEIV JERSEY, AND NENV YORK, N.Y., A CORPORATION OF NEV JERSEY.

TRANSMITTING-GEAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,200, dated April 8, 1902. Application filed September 16, 1901. Serial No. 75,655. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern: frame, which are not necessary to he referred Be it known that I, JAMES S. COEELAND, a to herein. So far as the present invention is citizen of the United States, whose residence concerned it stands for anyA driver and will is the city of Hartford, county of Hartford, be so referred to hereinafter. Upon the State of Connecticut, have invented new and driver are carried in any suitable manner two 55 useful Improvements inTransmitting-Gears, gears, marked b and c, respectively, one of of which the following is a specification, refsaid gears being shown as larger than the erence being had to the accompanying drawother, although both might be of the same ings. size. In the arrangement shown in said Fig.

IO The object of the invention is to improve l both gears are fast upon the driver a and ro- 6o the construction of transmitting-gears, and tatable therewith,meshing,respectively,with particularly to provide an improved transcorresponding driven gears CZ and c, the gears mitting-gear by means of which it shall be of each intermeshing pair being so proporpossible at will to change the speed of the tioned as to give the driven part, with which driven part. the gears d and e are connected, the desired 6 5 The invention is particularly applicable to speed relative to the speed of the driver a. cycles and other vehicles, and more especially Both pairs of gears are always in mesh, the to vehicles of this description in which the fast-speed gear d being a loose or fioating gear power is transmitted through a shaft, as diswhich is uncoupled from the driven part when zo tinguished from a chain; but it will be obslow speed is desired, while the slow-speed 7C? vious that the invention is not limited to the gear e is coupled to the driven part through a particular use herein referred to, but is caloose driving-clutch, which is so constructed pable of application to manydifferent uses in as to permit the driven part to overrun the which a change of speed is desired from time slow-speed gear e when the fast-speed gear d to time. is operative and to cause the slow-speed gear 75 For the purpose of illustration and explato drive when the fast-speed gear is not opernation as lto the nature of the invention it is ative. The driven part in this instance is represented in slightly different forms in the shown as the hub f of the driven wheel, beaccompanying drawings as applied to a chaining supported for rotation upon a sleeve g by 3o less bicycle, and in such drawingsa suitable ball-bearing h at one end and at 8o Figure l is a view in horizontal section of the other end by other ball-bearings QI and 7c, a rear hub of a bicycle and its appurtenances, which receive between them the sleeve-like together with a portion of a power-transmithub d of the fast gear d. In other words, ting shaft and its appurtenances, portions of said gear d floats on ball-bearings 'i and 7c,-

the rear fork of the bicycle being also shown. between the sleeve g and the hub or driven 85 Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view on a plane inpart f. Said gear-dis arranged to be clutched dicated by the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a or unclutched to or from the driven partfat detail sectional view on a plane indicated by will, and for this purpose pawls are provided line 3 3 of Fig. l looking in the direction of the engagement of which maybe controlled 4o the arrow thereon. Fig. isa detail sectional by the operator. As shown, the sleeve or 9o view on a plane indicated by line 4 4 of Fig. hub d of the gear d constituting the driving I looking in the direction of the arrow theremember of a clutch is provided with pockets on. Fig. 5 is a partial View similar to Fig. l, d2 to receive balls d3, said balls being adapted but illustrating a slightly different arrangeto enter when permitted part way into rement of the gearing. cesses f in the driven partf or in an annu- 95 Referring to the embodiment of the invenlus which is carried by said driven part contion illustrated in Fig. l of the drawings, the stituting the toothed or ratchet member of driving-shaft a, which is represented as the the clutch. When such pawls or balls rest power-transmitting shaft of a chainless bicypartly in the recesses f', as represented in 5o cle, is supported in suitable bearings in a Fig. 2, they couple the iioating gear d andthe roo with the gear.

' the driver.

'driven part, so that said driven part rotates In order tohold the balls out of the recesses j", 'a` device' is arranged to be moved longitudinally between the gear-sleeve and the recesses, so as to retain the balls in the pockets d2. As shown in Fig.v 1', the ballretaining device consists of a series of pins Z,

which are suitably shaped and beveled and are carried by a ring m. The latter is attached, by means ot' arms n, which slide through suitable openings formed in the outer wall of the annulus, to an outer ring o. A suitable fork (indicated in part at p) engages said ring and is arranged to be shifted by any suitable means, such as a rock-shaft p'.

As isusual in cycles, the rear-wheel hub or driven part fis arranged to overrun or run faster than its driver, as in coasting. For this purpose a suitable loose driving-clutch may be, interposed, as indicated above, at some convenient point between the driven part and the driver, such a clutch being -indicated in Fig. l by balls g', which are carried in pockets in the sleeve g and are adapted to engage inclined recesses in the hub or driven partf, the arrangement o1" such pockets and recesses being such as -to permit the hub to run faster than the sleeve, but coupling the two when it is desired to drive the hub through the sleeve. The construction of such clutch is well understood and requires no'further description herein.

Itis obviously immaterial so far as the general purposes of the invention are concerned whether the loose or floating gear is carried by the driver or by the driven part, and in Fig. 5 is shown a-.construction in which said loose or oating gear is carried by the driver and the slow'- speed gear is coupled to lthe driver by a loose driving-clutch which permits said slow-speed gear to run faster than In said Fig. 5 of the drawings the driver is represented, as before, by a powertransmitting shaft a., the slow-speed gear c being mounted loosely thereon and arranged to be driven thereby through the medium of a ball-clutch c2, which is of ordinary construetion, permitting the gear to run faster than the driver. The fast-speed gear b in this construction is shown as a loose gear floating between inner and outer ball-bearings 'I and k', the outer, k', beingsupported by the frame or casein the usual manner. The gears b and c mesh, respectively, with gears d4 and e', both of which may be fast upon the hub or driven part f3. The loose or floating gear b is arranged to be coupled to or unooupled from the driver bya suitable clutch, which may be controlled by the operator, such clutch comprising balls b2, which are received in pockets b3 in the hub or driver and are adapted to engage recesses 54 in the encircling sleeve b5 of the fast gear b', which thus become the toothed or ratchet members of the clutch. When the balls are permitted to drop part way into the recesses b4, the gear is compelled to rotate with the driver; but when they are retained in the pockets b3 then the fast gear is uncoupled from the driver and rotates at the speed of the driven part. To retain the balls in the pockets, a sleeve Z is arranged to slide between the hub of the driver and the sleeve of the gear, such sleeve being carried by a ring m', which may be engaged by a fork, (indicated atp in said Fig. 5,) the fork being operated by any suitable means, such as a rock-shaft p'.

Other changes in the relative arrangement of the driver and driven parts and of the fast and slow speed gears will undoubtedly suggest themselves in view of the foregoing, and therefore it is understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction and arrangement of parts shown and described herein.

I claim as my inventionl. Transmitting gearing comprising va dri ver, a driven part, intermeshing gears carried by said driver and driven part respectively, and a clutch interposed between one of said gears and its carrier, said clutch comprisingadrivingmember,engaging parts positively carried thereby, a toothed member and means adapted to be inserted between the engaging parts and the toothed member to retain the engaging parts out of engagement with the toothed member.

2. Transmitting gearing comprising a driver, a driven part, intermeshing gears carried by said driver and driven part respectively, and a clutch interposed between one of said gears and its carrier, said clutch comprising a driving member having pockets, a member having recesses, balls disposed in said pockets and adapted to engage said recesses, and means to retain said balls in said pockets.

3. Transmitting gearing comprising a driver, a driven part, intermeshing gears carried by said driver and driven part respectively, and a clutch interposed between one of said gears and its carrier, said clutch comprising a driving member having pockets, a member having recesses, balls disposed in said pockets adapted to engage said recesses, one of said members encompassing the other, and a ring movable longitudinally7 with respect to said members and having fingers to enter between said members and to retain the balls in said pockets.

4. Transmitting gearing comprising ua driver,a driven part,intermeshing slow-speed gears and intermeshing fast-speed gears carried by said driver and driven part, a loose driving-clutch interposed between one of said slow-speed gears and its carrier to drive when the fast-speed gear is not operative and to permit one part to overrun the other when the fast-speed gear is operative, a drivingclutch interposed between one of the fastspeed gears and its carrier and means to hold said last-named clutch out of operation.

5. Transmitting gearing comprising a driver,a driven part,intermeshing slow-speed gears and intermeshing fast-speed gears carried by said parts, a loose driving-clutch in- IOO IIO

terposed between one of the slow-speed gears and its carrier and a driving-elutohinterposed between one of the fast-speed gears and its carrier, said last-named clutch comprising a driving membeiyengaging parts and a toothed member, and means to retain said engaging parts out of engagement with said toothed member.

6. A two-speed gear comprising a driver, a driven part, intermeshing slow-speed gears and intermeshing fast-speed gears carried by said parts, a loose driving-clutch interposed between one of the slow-speed gears and its carrier and a driving-clutch interposed between one of the fast-speed gears and its earrier, said last-named eluteh comprising a driving member having pockets, a member having recesses and balls disposed in said pockets and adapted to engage said recesses, and means to retain said balls in said pockets.

7. Transmittinggearing comprising a driving-shaft, a driven part, intermeshing slowspeed bevelgears and intermeshing fastspeed bevel-gears carried by said drivingshaft and said driven part, a loose drivingclutch interposed between one of said slowspeed gears and its carrier, a driving-clutch interposed between one of the fast-speed gears and its carrier and means operable to control said last-named clutch.

S. Transmitting gearing comprising a driver, a driven part, a fast and slow speed gear fixed on one of said parts, intermeshing fast and slow speed gears carried on the other of said parts, a loose driving-clutch interposed between the last-named slow-speed gear and its carrier to drive when the fast-speed gear is not operative and to permit one part to overrun the other when the fast-speed gear is operative, a driving-clutch interposed between the last-named fast-speed gear and its carrier and means operable to control the engagement of said last-named clutch.

This specification signed and witnessed this 29th day of August, A. D. 1901.

JAMES s. COPELAND'.

'In presence oli- LUolUs E. VARNEY, JOHN M. ScoBLE. 

